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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the open end. When this is accomplished, the cord must be cut directly off, close to the edge of the clamp, and a little more of the above mixture should be sprinkled upon the ends exposed by the knife. After the operation is concluded, the clamps should be suffered to remain on eighteen or twenty-four hours. They may then be taken off by penning the colt in a confined place, and cutting the strings which tie their blunt ends. Neither swelling, nor stiffness, nor any other inconvenience follows this operation, and the animal appears, after he is relieved of the clamps, as well as ever he was. This method may, with equal efficacy, be applied to every other animal whose age or size renders the old way precarious. A Subscriber. WILDAIR. Mr. Editor: textit{Barnum'a Hotel, May 13, 1829. Looking into the 10th volume of the American Farmer, I perceive that the dispute about the pedigree of Wildair is not yet settled; but the same volume affords a satisfactory solution. There was a Wildair bred in Virginia by Mr. Randolph, gotten by Old Fearnaught. He was afterwards the property of Col. textit{Sytnmes, of Hanover county. The Maryland Wildair was bred by Col. Joseph textit{Sim, of Prince George's county, and was gotten by the imported Wildair. His pedigree is correctly given by Mr. Johns, as published in vol. 10, page 103. The imported Wildair was foaled in 1753. In 1763 or 1764, he arrived in Maryland, and consigned to Col. Joseph Sim for Mr. De Lancy, of New York. Before he was carried to New York, one of Col. Sim's mares was in foal by him, and produced Sim's Wildair, which was the first colt of his get in America. He won a colt's purse at Upper Marlborough, in May, 1768; and was then three or four years old. Old Wildair was re-shipped to England, prior to the revo...
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